NUTRITION as well as the feed solely being cereal-free. Ready Fibre Mash also can support horses on a high cereal diet that require more fibre to support overall gut health. It only requires five minutes of soaking and is an excellent way of increasing your horse’s water intake. The second cereal free mash is Solution Mash. Solution Mash contains high fibre (28.5%) but with a higher percentage of oils By Eleanor Blinkhorn (15%) and key antioxidants to (Bsc) Equine encourage the improvement of Nutritionist, Rowen condition whilst maintaining Barbary Horse Feeds crucial fibre levels to support the digestive tract. The high oil raditionally, many horse or starch. From a hay replacer up to a high percentage helps to improve coat condition and is a great owners often think a Mashes contain highly calorie nutrient dense mash source of calories without the mash should only be fed digestible, good sources of fibre containing cereals and an to older horses, or as a such as Soya Hulls or sugar beet alternative high calorie nutrient use of cereals. Other ingredients are included such as Yeasacc warming winter feed. Mash pulp supporting overall hindgut dense mash which is cereal and 1026 to encourage mineral based products are incredible health, by slowing the rate of molasses free. versatile feeds that are now digestion. The cereal free mashes are Ready digestion and increase optimum fibre digestion. Ingredients such becoming increasingly popular Mashes absorb a high volume of Fibre Mash and Solution Mash. offering a wide range of water to create their consistency. Ready Fibre Mash is ideal as a hay as Garlic, Spearmint and Fenugreek are also added to nutritional benefits. This is particularly important replacer for those stabled for Mashes are popular due to the when encouraging water intake long periods, more senior horses improve palatability and nutritional benefits that can be during summer and winter with difficulty eating long-stem support gut function and overall tailored to each horse’s months or for horses and ponies fibres or for performance horses health. Solution Mash is cereal nutritional needs. For those who that do not drink much water. on a high cereal diet that require and molasses free, designed for want to feed a mash, they range The moisture also eliminates a boost of fibre in their diet. It is low starch (4.5%) and sugar (1%) but is high in oil and fibre from cereal-free and high in fibre irritants that may irritate the the equivalent of good quality which can result in a lower respiratory system or horses hay containing (30%) fibre. This to help with controlled weight calorie feed for a lower suffering from COPD. mash is suitable for good doers, gain and stamina. It is fully balanced with essential workload, up to mashes that The consistency of the mash is horses prone to Cushing’s and vitamins, minerals and trace contain cereals which can easy to chew and digest which is Laminitis due to the low levels sustain horses requiring suitable for those with dental of starch (5%) and sugars (2.5%) elements. Continued overleaf... increased stamina and issues, like Diastemas. The performance. texture increases palatability, An alternative option, If your ease of chewing and swallowing horse is particularly excitable or also benefiting horses that have prone to gastric ulcers, mashes previously suffered with Choke that are developed with high or fussy eaters. fibre and oils, can support Rowen Barbary horse feeds have horses undertaking a more four mashes. Each mash is strenuous workload without the specifically designed for a range inclusion of high levels of sugar of nutritional requirements.
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